Autumn Vibes 🍂

Hello & Happy Monday

Today I squeezed in a little creative time in between show prep. I am travelling down to Farnborough on Wednesday for The Creative Craft Show. I've never done a 3 day show before, so this will be an experience! If your'e coming to the show, you can find me on the Dies to Die For stand G28. I will have Uniko's full inventory with me 😀

Today had a hint of autumn in the air, so I was inspired to dust off Natures Treasures II and make this quick and easy card. 

I didn't fancy using kraft card as my base, as I often do with autumn cards, but I wanted something a little softer/warmer than grey. So I reached for some Sahara Sand (now retired) I have in my card stock stash. 

Using one of the large leaves from the set and stamped it in black ink randomly. I then added a sentiment combination from Doodle Flowers, stamped on a piece of pink card I found in my bits box and adhered with foam tape. I finished with a trio of rhinestones to add a little sparkle.

Hope your week has stared well.

Crafty Hugs

Hello Autumn & End of Summer SALE!

Hello and Happy Autumn!

Today is the official first day of Autumn as I have gotten older I feel we should welcome and appreciate each new season when it arrives. I don't have a favourite season, mainly because each brings a beauty & wonder of its own.

As much as I have had a wonderful summer with The Beans, I am looking forward to cozy nights in and enjoying laughter over a cup oof hot chocolate. Taking walks through the crunching fallen leaves and savouring the low sunlight and feeling that crispness in the air.

This inspired my cards today...

I've been having fun with our Designer Dies recently and with Autumn here I choose the newest Natures Treasure II Designer Dies for my two cards today.

I started by ink blending some Autumnal inspired colours on a my base card, making sure to mask off the edges to line up with the top layer I had planned. 

I then moved to the top layer oof my card, die cutting the panel with both of the larger dies in the set and making sure to keep a hold of the inner cut outs. I then adhered this die cut panel to my ink blended base card using foam adhesive. My sentiment is from Simply Said Blocks III and I added some enamel dots to finish.

Not wanting may die cut pieces to go to waste, this lead me to make a second card.

I started by ink blending the leaves with the same colours as my first card. I then adhered them to my base card in roughly the same positions as I die cut them from the first card. My chosen sentiment for this card is from Simply Said and again I added some enamel dots to finish.

That's all my creativity for today, but before I go how about a little End of Summer SALE!  
 

Thanks for stopping by.

Crafty Hugs

Happy FriYAY 🎉

Hello & Happy Friday! 

What a treat, another long Bank Holiday weekend here in the UK as we celebrate 🎉 the Coronation of our new King 👑  Hoping the weather holds out for those celebrating & having street parties. Our close is hoping to have a party on Monday, so 🤞🏻 the rain blows over before then! 

I'm also hoping to spend more time in the studio tomorrow, while The Beans are out with grandparents. I've so many card ideas in my head that I want to make. Which leads me onto today's cards that I've been wanting to make and share since before the Designer Dies Natures Treasures II were released.

This first card uses the dies only and has lots of options. 

I decided to uses strips of 'scrap' card to create a colourful focal point behind the die cut. But you could easily use a stencil, like our Wonky Stripes or even a stamped design, like one from our Background Builder collection.

For my second card today I wanted to show how the smallest leaf from the Stencil - Natures Treasures II works with the dies.

Another quick clean & simple design.

That's all the creativity I have to share with you today. But before I go, how about the winner of the Designer Dies Natures Treasures II Release Day Blog Hop, we had HERE. 

Random Number Generator selected no.8 as the lucky comment...

Lucy E.22 April 2023 at 19:29

What a sweet die set! So many great ways to use this!

Congratulations to Lucy 🎉 

Please send me an email and I will reply with your £15 eGift Code to spend in store. Thank you to everyone for your lovely comments & support. 

Crafty Hugs

 

Monday Mid Century Modern Leaves

Hello & Happy Monday! 

I'm back in the studio today following a lovely weekend in Port Sunlight at the Stamping Together show. It was lovely to catch up with so many of you in person again and also to meet many of you for the first time. Thank you for your support & purchases, both at the show and on the website. 

Don't panic if you're coming to Stamperama in Harrogate on Sunday 30th, there is still plenty of stock of the new Designer Dies Natures Treasures II. There will be a restock of the Natures Treasures II clear stamps in a couple of weeks, but keep your eye out for some Mid Century Modern restocks this week.

Anyway, enough chat. How about some creativity, I have this card to share that I made demoing on Saturday...

I was demoing the Stencil - MOD Background Builder Circles, to show how easy it is to fill a card background. I chose this lovely new green from Concord & 9th - Artichoke. 

I then decided to finish the card by die cutting the large solid leaf from the Designer Dies Natures Treasures II and stamping the coordinating stamp onto my base card inside the die cut. The die cut & stencilled layer is adhered using foam adhesive and the sentiment is from Simply Said Blocks.

That's all I have to share today, time to pack your lovely orders and I've some late May Release things to prepare ;)

Don't forget there is still time to hop along and comment for your chance to win HERE. Thanks for stopping by.

Crafty Hugs

 

Designer Dies Natures Treasures II Release Day, Blog Hop & Giveaway!

Happy Weekend!

Such a happy fun day, as not only am I at the Stamping Together Festival in Port Sunlight (keep an eye on my social media stories), it is also Release Day for the Designer Dies Natures Treasures II.

Designer Dies Natures Treasures II £13.50

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www.uniko.co.uk

They are now available HERE on the website to purchase. But before you trip running over to the website, how about some more creative inspiration using them.

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Bev

Izzy

Julie

Steph

Vinita

One more thing before you run, do not walk to purchase 😉 make sure to leave a comment here and on all the stops for your chance to win a £15 eGift Certificate to spend in store. You have until midnight Sunday 30th April 2023 to comment. The lucky comment winner will be randomly selected and announced shortly after.

Thank you for joining us this week and I hope you enjoyed all the creative inspiration. 

Crafty Hugs

 

Introducing... Designer Dies Natures Treasures II Day Three

 Hello & Happy FriYAY.

Welcome to day three and the final of the Designer Dies Natures Treasures II introductions. As it is just this one product being released on Saturday 22nd April at 9am BST, I thought I would organise things a little different. 

Today, it is just Izzy and Steph sharing creative inspiration using these new dies and how they can be used on their own or with their counter part, Natures Treasures II clear stamps.

So, lets have a look at them in action...

Izzy

Steph

WOW! I know you'll agree with me how beautifully creative these are. I hope you've enjoyed the last 3 days as much as I have.

Which means, tomorrow is RELEASE DAY! These Designer Dies will be available on the website at 9am BST (and at Stamping Together Show at 10am) and we have our usual Brand Ambassador Blog Hop & Giveaway here on the blog! 

Thank you for stopping by & Crafty Hugs

 

Introducing... Designer Dies Natures Treasures II Day Two

Hello & Happy Thursday.

Welcome to day two of the Designer Dies Natures Treasures II introductions. As it is just this one product being released on Saturday 22nd April at 9am BST, I thought I would organise things a little different. 

Today, it is just Anita and Julie sharing creative inspiration using these new dies and how they can be used on their own or with their counter part, Natures Treasures II clear stamps.

So, lets have a look at them in action...

Anita

Julie

I absolutely LOVE seeing the Brand Ambassadors creativity with new products and their pairings with previously released Uniko products. I hope you enjoyed seeing Anita's and Julie's creations as much as I did.

Join us again tomorrow when two of the other Brand Ambassadors will be showcasing these Designer Dies. 

Thank you for stopping by & Crafty Hugs

 

Introducing... Designer Dies Natures Treasures II Day One

Hello & Happy Wednesday.

Welcome to day one of the Designer Dies Natures Treasures II introductions. As it is just this one product being released on Saturday 22nd April at 9am BST, I thought I would organise things a little different. 

Today, it is just myself and Vintia sharing creative inspiration using these new dies and how they can be used on their own or with their counter part, Natures Treasures II clear stamps.

So, lets have a look at them in action...

Bev

Vinita

I know I am biased, but these dies are amazing and I knew Vinita would showcase them wonderfully alongside me today. 

I hope you will join us again tomorrow when two of the other Brand Ambassadors will be showcasing these Designer Dies. 

Thank you for stopping by & Crafty Hugs

 

Hello September!

 Hello & Happy September!

I can't believe we are in September already. The summer seems to have flown by in a flash. It is back to school chaos as The Beans return on Monday AND luckily they get to celebrate their 8th Birthday tomorrow with no school! 

In between baking cakes today I managed to squeeze in a little crafty time. As much as I have enjoyed the summer, I have missed my daily routine in the studio and getting creative. So as much as I would happily have the school holidays last a little longer, I will be glad to get back in the studio!

Todays card was a fairly quick make as I had already stamped and fussy cut the leaves from Natures Treasures II a few weeks ago. They've just been sat waiting to be used! 

I decided to pair them with BIG & BOLD Hello. Mainly as I wanted a Hello September / Autumn inspired card with a modern twist of using neutral tones, but not just browns. I added a little bit of dimension with the fussy cut hello and the upper most leaf using foam adhesive.

September is an exciting month as next week we have another batch of requested clear stamp restocks arriving next week. These include, Background Blocks Halftone, Background Builders Squared, Pure Florals Gerbera, Pure Florals Peony and Snowflake Serenade. These are all available on backorder over on the website and any orders containing a backorder will be posted 7th / 8th September. 

Orders over £25 are being posted via Signed For Delivery at no extra cost to you, due to the postal strikes. As well, please allow extra time for your orders to arrive due to the strikes. I have no control over this and if I used a courier I would have to increase postage costs and I don't want to do this. 

In other news, Uniko is super excited to be in Harrogate on the 10th and 11th at the Crafterama show. This will be our first time in Harrogate AND doing a two day show! You can purchase tickets HERE.

Before I go I have one more little announcement. I know times are hard right now and we are all feeling the pinch. So in celebration of The Beans 8th Birthday tomorrow I am offering 10% off all orders from today, until 10am Monday 5th September. 

That's all from me today! 

Crafty Hugs

Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Natures Treasures II

Good morning!

Anita here with some Brand Ambassador inspiration for you and for today's projects I've chosen to use an oldie but definitely goodie.  The Natures Treasures II Clear Stamp Set is one of my most favourite leafy sets in my stash, I just adore the design, and love the fact that Uniko also have the same design in a stencil and mask set too. 

For all three of my projects today I've also used sentiments from the Birthday Wishes Clear Stamp Set.

Ok, first up I've done a little masking and paired the leaf image with the Background Blocks Pinstripe Clear Stamp...

Firstly, I stamped the leaf image in a pale ink before colouring the inside of the leaves with Copic markers.  I then masked the leaves in order to stamp the pinstripe background without going over the centre of the leaves.  Once dry I then re-stamped the leaf image in Versamark before heat embossing in white.  I finished by stamping the sentiment in black before adhering the die cut panel to the card base.

Next up I used the stencil...

This one layer card was super simple to make and for a change I chose a coloured card base.  I used the two different sized images from the stencil to ink blend the leaves in Distress Oxides in Iced Spruce and Dried Marigold.  Finished with a sentiment stamped in black.  

And finally, just some stamping and embossing..

I stamped the leaves in green and re-stamped with some subtle brown ink on the tips of the leaves, then stamped again with the green to blend it out.  I stamped the flourishes from the set and heat embossed these in gold and copper, and finished once again with a sentiment stamped in black.  

I hope you like these and that it encourages you to dig out some older items in your stash.  I'm not quite ready to say goodbye to summer yet but autumn is starting to creep in, we've had such dry, hot weather here in the UK so some of the leaves are already beginning to change.  So that's where I got my inspiration for these cards.

Enjoy the rest of your week.  We have a bank holiday this coming weekend here in the UK so I'm certainly looking forward to that extra day off!

Stay safe, sending crafty hugs

Brand Ambassador Inspiration : Nature's Treasures II & Background Builders - Squared

  Hi there!

Hannelie here today with a set of CAS cards using the Nature's Treasure II and Background Builders Squared stamp sets. I think the two sets are a fantastic match and I love the way the cards turned out!

Here they are :

Card #1:

Card #2 :

Card #3 :

I used :

• Natures-treasures II stamp set
• Background-builders-squared
• Anniversaire-arts-decoratifs-clear-stamp (sentiment on card #1)
• Floral-vines-clear-stamp-set ( sentiment on card #2)
• Simply-said-blocks (sentiment on card #3)
• Promarkers
• Altenew ink
• Versafine black ink
• Misti
• Silhouette cameo

The possibilities are endless with these two sets. Even with the same color palette you can achieve so many different looks!

Thank you so much for popping in ... I hope you feel inspired to try different looks with the same stamp set !

Hannelie